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Anthropic · mid

Claude Sonnet 5: API pricing 2026

Anthropic's current price-performance tier at $2/$10 — cheaper than the Sonnet 4.6 generation it succeeds ($3/$15) and a strong default for most production automation. Handles multi-step tool use and coding that previously needed an Opus-class model.

Input $/M tokens
$2.00
Output $/M tokens
$10.00
Cost / task
$0.0160
3k in + 1k out
Tier
mid
Anthropic

Cost at common task volumes

1,000 tasks / yr$16.00
10,000 tasks / yr$160
100,000 tasks / yr$1,600
1,000,000 tasks / yr$16,000

Token shape: 3,000 input + 1,000 output per task. No prompt caching. Real cost varies with your actual prompt shape.

Source

↗ https://claude.com/pricing

Verified 2026-09-15.

Compare with other LLMs
Claude Opus 5$0.0400Claude Haiku 4.5$0.0080Claude Opus 4.8$0.0400Claude Sonnet 4.6$0.0240OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol$0.0450OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra$0.0180OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna$0.0018Gemini 2.5 Flash$0.0034Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$0.0007Grok 4.3$0.0063